this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2023
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Anime

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Anime is hand-drawn and computer animation originating from Japan.

Anime; the one thing that gets us closer to each other and brings us together.

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[–] IzzyData@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Don't they mean the uselessness of critic reviews?

[–] violetraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 year ago

No. If you go to Rotten Tomatoes there's definitely a lot of right wing virtue signaling buzzwords with one-star reviews.

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The “tomato meter” is literally manipulated into irrelevance. There are outfits that specifically pay critics during a certain time period to either hold off with their review or change it to give a shitty feature a 100% during previews so they can market the hell out of it. The system was shoddy and broken before. At this point it’s just useless.

[–] 1984@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which review site or a rating do you prefer?

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Honestly, I don’t really read reviews. I can usually sense based on the marketing campaign and the feel of the trailer whether a movie will be up my alley. I also work in film and have a huge group of super pretentious movie buffs around me at all times. I’m definitely an outlier in that group because I’m a pretty easy critic lol. And I know which friends of mine are too pretentious for their own good or ones who are more geared toward blockbusters than I am. And from there I work backwards to see what interests me. Or I just tag along and find out the hard way.

I will say, though, I like letterboxd. You do have to start scrolling and see which people you’re going to discount and which ones that point out things that are important to you.